§ Mr. Martyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what research his Department has undertaken into emissions from landfill sites. [97620]
§ Mr. HillDETR has commissioned two projects on estimating methane emissions from landfill sites, the first being "An estimate of methane emissions from UK landfill sites based on direct flux measurements at representative sites", published in November 1997. The results underpinned a second project to develop a methodology for estimating UK emissions from landfill and to offer projections to 2012, published in March 1999.